• Essays

    No Adam for Eve: The Quiet History of Lesbian Pulp Fiction

    Mid-century pulps featuring women in love were meant to titillate straight men, but soon found their way to a lesbian audience desperate for representation.

    October 12, 2020  By Chloe Maveal
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    The Moral Morass of the Slasher: Revisiting The Strangely Slapstick Horror of Freddy's Dead

    If horror exists to reinforce the status quo, then how did we end up rooting for Freddy?

    October 9, 2020  By Paul Michael Anderson
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    Chandler and the Fox: The Mid-Century Correspondence Between Raymond Chandler and James M. Fox

    Chandler's letters to a younger crime writer offer a revealing—and often ugly—glimpse into his later years.

    October 8, 2020  By Curtis Evans
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    The Strange Poetry of a Notorious Gangster's Last Words

    In 1935, Dutch Schultz was shot in a Newark steakhouse. His deathbed monologue would inspire an unusual literary legacy.

    October 8, 2020  By Michael Cannell
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    Memories of an Accidental Mystery Writer

    When Sherry Thomas added a little murder to her historical romances, she struck genre-mixing gold.

    October 8, 2020  By Sherry Thomas
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    The Strange History of Mickey Spillane and New Zealand's "Jukebox Killer"

    In 1950s New Zealand, public fear over American pulp novels reached its unlikely peak, with one boy stabbed and another hanged for it.

    October 7, 2020  By Andrew Nette
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    Thoroughly Modern Hauntings: How Ghost Stories Keep Finding New Ways to Scare Us

    From The Ring to The Host, modern technology has only made horror stories scarier.

    October 7, 2020  By Frazer Lee
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    Meet Catherine Louisa Pirkis, creator of the 19th century's most progressive lady detective character

    Her protagonist, Loveday Brooke, was an anomaly amid the Victorian lady detective literary craze, for many reasons—including simply for having been created by a woman.

    October 6, 2020  By Olivia Rutigliano
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    Why I'm Proud to Have My Books Called "Crime Fiction"

    For poor folks, crime is sometimes the only option.

    October 6, 2020  By Bryn Greenwood
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    Adventures in Shark Cage Diving

    Ecotourists looking for extreme thrills have embraced cage diving—but how do sharks feel about it?

    October 6, 2020  By Sara E. Johnson
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